THE MANX TEMPEST (PROVISIONAL) Written by PAUL ROBERTSHAW. Based on, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE TEMPEST

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1 THE MANX TEMPEST (PROVISIONAL) Written by PAUL ROBERTSHAW Based on, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE TEMPEST Phone Number +44 (0)

2 THE MANX TEMPEST OPENING TEXT FOR THE MANX TEMPEST [SCREENPLAY] LIST OF ROLES COPYRIGHT PAUL ROBERTSHAW 2012 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ACTOR, POET EDWARD DE VERE EARL OF OXFORD THOMAS STANLEY EARL OF DERBY AND LORD OF MANN MASTER OF SHIP BOATSWAIN MARINERS ALONSO KING OF NAPLES SEBASTIAN HIS BROTHER ANTONIO HIS BROTHER, THE USURPING DUKE OF MILAN GONZALO AN HONEST OLD COUNCILLOR ADRIAN AND FRANCISCO LORDS DANIEL RADCLIFFE STEWARD OF LORD DERBY; ALSO FERDINAND, SON OF THE KING OF NAPLES SIMON CALLOW A HEALER; ALSO THE RIGHT DUKE OF MILAN BRIDIE CALLOW, RONALD TYAGH S DAUGHTER; ALSO MIRANDA DAUGHTER OF JUAN A PATIENT OF AND MIRANDA ARIEL AN AIRY SPIRIT JONI JOUGHIN A KNITTER; ALSO A WITCH SYCORAX [H.BONHAM-CARTER OLD JAGO A RABITTER; ALSO TRINCULO, A JESTER YOUNG JAGO A RABITTER ALSO A BUTLER DANNY THE MOO CALLINAN, A FARMER, TENANT OF DERBY; ALSO CALIBAN A SAVAGE AND DEFORMED SLAVE CERTAIN NYMPHS AND REAPERS

3 2. SCREEN TEXT: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DID NOT COMMENCE HIS THEATRICAL CAREER IN LONDON AS A PLAYWRIGHT, BUT AS AN ACTOR AND POET, THEN AS ACTOR-MANAGER. HE HAD IMPORTANT PATRONS, INCLUDING EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD, WHO WAS ALSO A COLLABORATOR AND FRIEND. THESE WERE TURBULENT TIMES, EXEMPLIFIED BY THE IMPRISONMENT AND LATER EXECUTION OF THE QUEEN'S CATHOLIC COUSIN MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS; ALSO THE UNSUCCESSFUL SPANISH AND ENGLISH ARMADAS, SHAKESPEARE WAS THREATENED BY THESE TENSIONS AS AT LEAST ONE OF HIS PARENTS WAS A CATHOLIC. WHAT IS CLEAR IS THAT THERE ARE SEVEN 'MISSING' YEARS FROM HIS ADULT LIFE, WHEN HE DISAPPEARED. TO THIS DAY THERE REMAIN NO RECORDS OF HIS ACTIONS OR WHEREABOUTS. THERE ARE TWO SPECULATIONS AS TO WHAT HAPPENED: SCREEN TEXT FADES THE YEAR IT IS DAYTIME. A ROOM ON THE UPPER FLOOR OF A HOUSE IN LONDON, OCCUPIED BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Street noises can be heard FADES The shutters of the unglazed windows are open. Shakespeare is sitting at a table by the window. There are sheets of parchment on the table and an ink-pot. He holds a quill pen. There is a gentle knock at the door. Shakespeare puts down his quill, rises, crosses the room and opens the door. ENTER Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford SHAKESPEARE My Lord Oxford I am as pleased as I am surprised to see you here. Will OXFORD The two men embrace warmly. OXFORD (CONT D) I come on urgent business and reached your abode by a crooked route to avoid the chance of being followed.

4 3. SHAKESPEARE My Lord I am grieved to hear of any danger you may face OXFORD It is not I but you Will who is endangered How so my Lord? SHAKESPEARE OXFORD Yester-eve I was at Court to attend the new Masque. There, a friend, whom I name not, and who is close to the Queen's Council, warned me that Robert Cecil, the Queen's master of spiery and intelligencer, has decided that our theatrical ventures are seditious. As we know the Puritan party that he represents is no friend of dramatics. The advice was for me to return to the country and keep away from London: to keep my head by keeping it down. As for you Will, you are the goat to be scaped: Oxford mockingly mimes Arrest, Ordeal ; and Hanging : Arrest is certain; The Tower is likely; Ordeal probable; a public Hanging possible. So the scaped must 'scape. A London jury might save you from conviction; but you would still face the ecclesiastical authorities, where no jury sits and where evidence can be taken from you by public examination in the courtroom. SHAKESPEARE Why should I be in danger from the Church s court? OXFORD Will, as I am thy friend and here for thy safety, do not parry me with smart wordplay. It is no secret that you love and lust after that blackamoor the Strumpet of Clerkenewell. I have read your verses to your dark lady.

5 4. SHAKESPEARE Love I freely admit, but dalliance I deny. OXFORD Be that as it may, your denial will not get you far in that court. Our Lord would support your love - indeed rumour has it that he married a whore. But he clearly opposed adultery. Your dark lady is, as you well know, married to the keeper of a notorious stew, and adultery is adultery even against a cuckolded brothel keeper. Worse: you and I know too much of another crime. So do my [He winks at WS] fears deceive me that its name we durs t not utter. The court has punishments worse than hanging for such crimes. SHAKESPEARE Pacing the floor Where can I go but to Stratford, where enemies would soon find me. I am undone. OXFORD. I came here with a solution for you. Here is a letter of introduction to a relative of mine, a catholic gentleman of the County Palatine. Oxford hands Shakespeare a sealed letter It is not as far as Scotland but it is safer. You will tutor his family in return for shelter. There are many such recusants in Lancashire, so in time you may tutor others. They have good libraries so you will not starve. You must not return until you have word from me. You must part forthwith and without farewells.

6 5. SHAKESPEARE I will take but two satchels and will myself take a crooked way to The Angel, where I will buy a walking nag to proceed -with your lordship's consent- to Stratford to say farewell to my wife and to make arrangements for her comfort in my absence. OXFORD Aye, but enter after dark and leave the next morning before dawn. There can be no lingering nor dallying. SHAKESPEARE I will leave the nag for her disposal and take the covered waggon to Coventry, where I will purchase another walking nag to continue my journey. OXFORD This is the best we can hope for in these troubled times. SHAKESPEARE [STROKING HIS CHIN] I have a sudden stratagem for you to consider if it may please you Speak on Will OXFORD SHAKESPEARE If t'were possible for you to arrange for a person in your trust to be at The Tabard tonight. Kit will be there. OXFORD Kit Marlowe, thy rival and well known to be in Cecil's pay and pocket. SHAKESPEARE The self-same Kit. (MORE)

7 6. They embrace again. EXIT OXFORD SHAKESPEARE (CONT'D) He must overhear that I am run away and may serve the Queen's enemies in Flanders and that I shall depart from one of the Cinque ports -he knows not which. By this means shall Cecil's agents rush to the South-East, whilst Will the wily bard will have flown to the North- West. OXFORD A brave stratagem. It shall be done. And now dear Will we must part. Farewell and Adieu. FADE OUT. SCREEN TEXT IT IS SHAKESPEARE HAS BEEN IN EXILE IN LANCASHIRE FOR THREE YEARS. HE HAS ACTED AS TUTOR TO THE CHILDREN OF SEVERAL PROMINENT LOCAL FAMILIES AND MOVED TO KNOWSLEY HALL, SEAT OF THE GREATEST OF THEM, THE STANLEYS, KINGMAKERS OF THE TUDOR DYNASTY, EARLS OF DERBY, AND FEUDAL LORDS OF THE ISLE OF MANN. SCREEN TEXT AND SCENE AN OAK-PANELLED ROOM IN KNOWSLEY HALL. SHAKESPEARE ATTENDS THE EARL OF DERBY WHO IS SEATED AT A LARGE TABLE. DERBY Master Shakespeare I receive good reports of your learning and its exposition from my son. Indeed you came to my seat after I had received such good reports from my neighbours and friends whom you have previously served. SHAKESPEARE My Lord, both you and your friends have given me shelter, and beyond that, refuge from a grievous fate, so it behoves me to respond with my best endeavours. (MORE)

8 7. SHAKESPEARE (CONT'D) I am pleased that your children give a good report of me and I hope to continue to be worthy of it and them. DERBY I called you here for another reason, which I trust will interest you. You have expressed your sadness at the loss of two Spanish galleons on my domain, the Isle of Man in the terrible tempest that attended the Spanish king's invasion Armada. The galleon Arragon foundered on the rocks of the South-East of the Isle. There was never any hope for her or her crew: God rest their souls. The Minorca fared better, breaking up by the fishing village of Laxey, where some of her crew were saved and are now cared for there. SHAKESPEARE It was a providential deliverance. DERBY [RISING] It is my purpose to make a visitation to my domain of Mann each year. Alas, that cannot always be done, but I will do so this year, indeed next month. I have however a trusty family of Stewards to carry on my business at all times by residing in permanence on the island. This family of Radcliffeoriginating here- manage my business well and rule with a fair hand, which I encourage. They all speak the language of the Manx which much eases their tasks. I am inviting you to take passage with me and when, God willing, we make landfall I will place you in the care of the young Steward Daniel Radcliffe, who will take you about with him on his business, when you may observe the character and customs of these my subjects. For myself, I have business to attend with greater persons of the island, land Captains of Parishes and representatives in the ancient assembly of Tynwald. (MORE)

9 8. DERBY [RISING] (CONT'D) My business principally is to establish an annual Derby prize race without fences on the island, for the finest horses. Also, Tynwald has passed to me a Petition of Doleance from farmers of the Parish of Ballaugh, who are aggrieved by nature s enlargement of the willow bogs in that part; Turning over plans on the table they aver that soon they will have no grazing land for their livestock and seek the digging of a drain to the sea three miles away. This would be a great enterprise requiring the coming together of men from four parishes over some years. I doubt I can support this at this time. This business will take at most five days, when we will return. SHAKESPEARE My Lord I am as ever beholden to you. DERBY I believe you have a yen for travel, having risked your vacation last year travelling to Scotland and its capital city. SHAKESPEARE Brave or foolhardy, I know not which, but your lordship will understand that experience is the food of the playwright and one day, God willing, that craft may be opened to me. I may return to Scotland if my duties so allow. DERBY We share your hopes. Meanwhile we shall sail for a day on my barque on the first tide of the first Monday of the month coming, so prepare yourselfmy confessor is available for you. I put great trust in the skill and experience of Manx sea captains. One not only trusts them; (MORE)

10 9. DERBY (CONT'D) under the law of the sea they have absolute command and demand of all aboard their vessel -even kings must obey them and their agents when aboard. Captain Maddrell, who is well known to me advises that no human soul is mightier than the ocean. Any who say other risk an early drowning. SHAKESPEARE My Lord, I shall prepare myself accordingly Shakespeare bows and EXITS FADE OUT ON A SHIP AT SEA: A TEMPESTUOUS NOISE OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING HEARD. [SPANISH HEAD, ISLE OF MAN OCCASIONALLY VISIBLE] ENTER a master and a boatswain EXIT Boatswain! MASTER BOATSWAIN Here, master: what cheer? MASTER Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir. BOATSWAIN Heigh, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the master's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind, if room enough! ([Bosun's whistle heard]) ENTER mariners to work the rigging

11 10. ENTER Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo, and others EXIT. ALONSO Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men. BOATSWAIN I pray now, keep below. ANTONIO Where is the master, boatswain? BOATSWAIN Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. GONZALO Nay, good, be patient. BOATSWAIN When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: Silence! Trouble us not. GONZALO Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard. BOATSWAIN None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out of our way, I say.

12 11. GONZALO I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good fate, to his hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage. If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. EXEUNT RE-ENTER the boatswain BOATSWAIN Down with the topmast! Yare! Lower, lower! Bring her to try with main-course. (A cry within) A plague upon this howling! They re louder than the weather Or our office. RE-ENTER Sebastian, Antonio, and Gonzalo Yet again! What do you here? Shall we give o'er and drown? Have you a mind to sink? SEBASTIAN A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog! Work you then. BOATSWAIN ANTONIO Hang, cur! Hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker! We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art. GONZALO I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an unstanched wench.

13 12. ENTER mariners wet BOATSWAIN Lay her a-hold, a-hold! Set her two courses off to sea again; lay her off. MARINERS All lost! To prayers, to prayers! All lost! BOATSWAIN What, must our mouths be cold? GONZALO The king and prince at prayers! Let's assist them, for our case is as theirs. SEBASTIAN I'm out of patience. ANTONIO We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards: this wide-chapp'd rascal--would thou mightst lie drowning the washing of ten tides! GONZALO He'll be hang'd yet, though every drop of water swear against it and gape at widest to glut him. (A confused noise within: 'mercy on us!'-- 'we split, we split!'-- 'farewell, my wife and children!'-- 'farewell, brother!'--'we split, we split, we split!') ANTONIO Let's all sink with the king. SEBASTIAN Let's take leave of him. EXEUNT Antonio and Sebastian

14 13. GONZALO Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be done! But I would fain die a dry death. EXEUNT FADES ON THE ISLE OF MAN. DAY. OUTSIDE A DWELLING. DANIEL RADCLIFFE, LORD DERBY'S STEWARD IS WITH SHAKESPEARE. RADCLIFFE Master Shakespeare I trust that after last night s sleep your stomach has ceased its sea heaving; and that your belly is more composed so that you may proceed on your way with me? SHAKESPEARE I thank you Steward Radcliffe. My spirits are again in balance and the excess of bile is now expurgated. I confess I have not seen such raw nature before. The surge and sway of the sea much perturb-ed me. RADCLIFFE We can then proceed, and every step will refresh your spirits. From Lord Stanley I am instructed to take you in my company about his lordship's business these few days. That will be my pleasure as much as my duty. We receive few visitors from across. We will sojourn nights with a tenant of Lord Stanley. The place is simple but the care is good as are the victuals and the home-brewed jough. On this island it is usual to walk, often for a distance. They say here that God gave Stanley three legs for his arms, but we have but two of each, so we must practice them. So we will walk, the best of which is being close to the country and its folk. To ease this I make you a gift of what all wear, a pair of carranes.

15 14. Radcliffe hands Shakespeare boots of in-turned cowhide And wool for your greater comfort Radcliffe hands Shakespeare two lumps of ginger wool Shakespeare stuffs and pulls on the boots, then cross-laces them I have some calls to make which I pray may interest you. One knows not whom we may chance upon on our journey. Our first visit is not far from here, where I have business of mine own. SHAKESPEARE Let us depart. My appetite for encounter is awakened. EXEUNT Radcliffe and Shakespeare up a track FADES WHERE SEVERAL TRACKS CONVERGE IS A WELL MAINTAINED HOUSE WITH OUTBUILDINGS. THERE ARE PEOPLE WAITING OUTSIDE, SOME WITH THEIR SICK ON CARTS, SOME WITH LIVESTOCK. RADCLIFFE This is the home of Simon Callow, one of the respected Wise-Men and Women healers of the island. The origins of this tradition we know not but it may have been fifteen centuries ago to when the Romans massacred the Druid priests on the island of Anglesey. Any who escaped are likely to have made for the nearest land across the sea. That is here. Also some of the monks pensioned off from our Rushen Abbey on its dissolution were skilled herbalists and may have passed on their knowledge. Simon Callow is typical of these healers in that he treats both persons and beasts. He does not usually treat women, whom he recommends to Fenella Farragher in the next parish, or for lumbago to Annie Corteen in the parish of Maughold. For bone-setting of persons or beasts, Orry Quayle of Sulby has no equal.

16 15. Radcliffe and Shakespeare enter the house with its chiollagh hearth in the centre of the floor. The house is full of jars and bottles of preparations, with herbs hanging to dry from roof rafters. A patient is sitting in a chair, hypnotised, and repeating charm phrases in Manx. Callow is attended by his daughter Bridie, who is beautiful despite her demure dress and carranes. It is evident that Radcliffe has eyes for her. Radcliffe introduces Shakespeare to Callow, an imposing figure RADCLIFFE (TO CALLOW) (CONT D) [MANX GAELIC] This is Lord Stanley's tutor who is visiting whilst his lordship is here on Tynwald business Callow and Shakespeare shake hands CALLOW gesturing to the patient This man I have put to sleep and he repeats charms to bring him peace of mind and to end his outbursts of temper Radcliffe translates to Shakespeare Callow wakens the patient counting from ten to one Juan nods and smiles BRIDIE CALLOW TO THE PATIENT Juan do you feel at peace now Bridie picks up and hands to Juan Here is a bunch of lavender and rosemary for thy pillow to give thee sweet dreams Juan Juan expresses thanks and EXITS RADCLIFFE [TO CALLOW] I have a filly who conceives not despite the stallion being proven. I wish to bring her on my next visit in a month's time Radcliffe translates to Shakespeare

17 16. CALLOW It would be best at the time of the new moon Radcliffe translates to Shakespeare CALLOW (CONT D) Steward Daniel I would like some more kippers from the smokehouse at Peel, such as you brought me on a previous visit RADCLIFFE I will certainly look for a dozen pairs for you. I also have a taste for them. Radcliffe translates to Shakespeare RADCLIFFE [TO CALLOW AND BRIDIE] Farewell Simon and farewell to thee Bridie. I look forward to our next meeting CALLOW TO SHAKESPEARE I hope your visit to our island is fruitful and that you return when your duties permit Radcliffe translates to Shakespeare Shakespeare shakes Callow's hand Bridie smiles Outside Callow s door SHAKESPEARE TO RADCLIFFE Here is a mysterious medicine, methinks of much power. RADCLIFFE Its power lies in physician and patient sharing their belief in it. The other side of this coin, which we are watchful of, are the dark arts in which one holds power over others. It is much troubling Lancashire at the present time.

18 17. SHAKESPEARE I hear of it everywhere. There would be less bad magic if there were wise healers as are evident here RADCLIFFE Make no mistake they are two sides of the same coin. Radcliffe and Shakespeare depart Fades THE ISLAND. BEFORE 'S CELL. ENTER Prospero and Miranda Miranda moves about MIRANDA If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, but that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered with those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel, who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd. Had I been any god of power, I would have sunk the sea within the earth or ere it should the good ship so have swallow'd and the fraughting souls within her. Be collected: no more amazement: Tell your piteous heart there's no harm done. MIRANDA O, woe the day!

19 18. No harm. I have done nothing but in care of thee, of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing of whence I am, nor that I am more better than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, and thy no greater father. MIRANDA More to know did never meddle with my thoughts. Miranda sits 'tis time I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand, and pluck my magic garment from me. So: Prospero lays down his mantle Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort. The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd the very virtue of compassion in thee, I have with such provision in mine art so safely ordered that there is no soul--no, not so much perdition as an hair betid to any creature in the vessel which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down; for thou must now know farther. MIRANDA You have often begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd and left me to a bootless inquisition, concluding 'stay: not yet.' The hour's now come; the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember a time before we came unto this cell? I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not out three years old.

20 19. MIRANDA Certainly, sir, I can. By what? By any other house or person? Of any thing the image tell me that hath kept with thy remembrance. MIRANDA 'tis far off and rather like a dream than an assurance that my remembrance warrants. Had I not four or five women once that tended me? Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it that this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time? If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here, how thou camest here thou mayst. MIRANDA But that I do not. Twelve year since, Miranda, Twelve year since, thy father was the Duke of Milan and a prince of power. MIRANDA Sir, are not you my father? Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and she said thou wast my daughter; and thy father was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir and princess no worse issued. MIRANDA standing again O the heavens! What foul play had we, (MORE)

21 20. (CONT'D) That we came from thence? Or blessed was't we did? (CONT D) Both, both, my girl: by foul play, as thou say'st, Were we heaved thence, but blessedly holp hither. MIRANDA O, my heart bleeds to think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to, which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther. My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio-- I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should be so perfidious!-- he whom next thyself of all the world I loved and to him put the manage of my state; as at that time through all the signories it was the first and Prospero The prime duke, being so reputed In dignity, and for the liberal arts without a parallel; those being all my study, the government I cast upon my brother and to my state grew stranger, being transported and rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle-- dost thou attend me? MIRANDA Sir, most heedfully. Being once perfected how to grant suits, how to deny them, Who to advance and who to trash for over-topping, New created the creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em, or else new form'd 'em; having both the key of officer and office, Set all hearts i' the state to what tune pleased his ear; (MORE)

22 21. (CONT'D) that now he was the ivy which had hid my princely trunk, and suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not. MIRANDA O, good sir, I do. I pray thee, mark me I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind with that which, but by being so retired, o er prized all popular rate, in my false brother awaked an evil nature, and my trust like a good parent, did beget of him a falsehood in its contrary as great as my trust was, which had indeed no limit, a confidence sans bound. he being thus lorded not only with what my revenue yielded but what my power might else exact, like one who, having into truth by telling of it, made such a sinner of his memory to credit his own lie, he did believe he was indeed the duke, out o th substitution and executing th outward face of royalty with all prerogative. Hence his ambition growingdost thou hear? MIRANDA Your tale sir, would cure deafness To have no screen between this part he play'd and him he play'd it for, he needs will be absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties he thinks me now incapable; confederates-- so dry he was for sway-- wi' the King of Naples (MORE)

23 22. (CONT'D) to give him annual tribute, do him homage, subject his coronet to his crown and bend the dukedom yet unbow'd-- alas, poor Milan!-- to most ignoble stooping. MIRANDA O the heavens! Mark his condition and the event; then tell me if this might be a brother. MIRANDA I should sin to think but nobly of my grandmother: good wombs have borne bad sons. Now the condition. The King of Naples, being an enemy to me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit; which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises of homage and I know not how much tribute, should presently extirpate me and mine out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan with all the honours on my brother: whereon, a treacherous army levied, one midnight fated to the purpose did Antonio open the gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness, the ministers for the purpose hurried thence me and thy crying self. MIRANDA Alack, for pity! I, not remembering how I cried out then, will cry it o'er again: it is a hint that wrings mine eyes to't. Hear a little further (MORE)

24 23. (CONT'D) and then I'll bring thee to the present business which now's upon's; without the which this story were most impertinent. MIRANDA Wherefore did they not That hour destroy us? Well demanded, wench: my tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not, so dear the love my people bore me, nor set a mark so bloody On the business, but with colours fairer painted their foul ends. In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared a rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd, nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us, to cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh to the winds whose pity, sighing back again, did us but loving wrong. MIRANDA Alack, what trouble was I then to you! O, a cherubim thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile. Infused with a fortitude from heaven, when I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt, under my burthen groan'd; which raised in me an undergoing stomach, to bear up against what should ensue. MIRANDA How came we ashore?

25 24. By providence divine. Some food we had and some fresh water that a noble neapolitan, Gonzalo, out of his charity, being then appointed master of this design, did give us, with rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries, which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness, knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me from mine own library with volumes that prize above my dukedom. MIRANDA Would I might but ever see that man! Now I arise: Resumes his mantle Sit still, and hear The last of our sea-sorrow. Here in this island we arrived; and here have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit than other princesses can that have more time for vainer hours and tutors not so careful. MIRANDA Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir, for still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason for raising this sea-storm? Know thus far forth. By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, now my dear lady, hath mine enemies I brought to this shore; And by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon a most auspicious star, (MORE)

26 25. (CONT'D) whose influence if now I court not but omit, my fortunes will ever after droop. Here cease more questions: Makes hypnotic passes over Miranda Miranda sleeps thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dullness, and give it way: I know thou canst not choose. Come away, servant, come. I am ready now. Approach, my Ariel, come. ENTER Ariel [androgynous/hermaphroditic; with hi-tech partial dematerialising] ARIEL All hail, great master! Grave sir, hail! I come to answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire, to ride on the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality. Hast thou, spirit, perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? ARIEL To every article. I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flamed amazement: sometime I'd divide, and burn in many places; on the topmast, the yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors o' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary and sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks of sulphurous roaring (MORE)

27 26. ARIEL (CONT'D) The most mighty Neptune seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble, yea, his dread trident shake. My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil would not infect his reason? ARIEL Not a soul but felt a fever of the mad and play'd some tricks of desperation. All but mariners plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel, then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand, with hair up-staring,-- then like reeds, not hair,-- was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'hell is empty and all the devils are here.' Why that's my spirit! But was not this nigh shore? ARIEL Close by, my master. But are they, Ariel, safe? ARIEL Not a hair perish'd; on their sustaining garments not a blemish, but fresher than before: and, as thou badest me, in troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle. The king's son have I landed by himself; whom I left cooling of the air with sighs in an odd angle of the isle and sitting, his arms in this sad knot. Mimes the miserable Ferdiand

28 27. Of the king's ship the mariners say how thou hast disposed and all the rest o' the fleet. ARIEL Safely in harbour is the king's ship; In the deep nook, where once thou call'dst me up At midnight to fetch dew from the still-vex'd bermoothes, there she's hid: the mariners all under hatches stow'd; who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, I have left asleep; and for the rest o' the fleet which I dispersed, they all have met again and are upon the mediterranean flote, bound sadly home for Naples, supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd and his great person perish. FADES A place on the island without dwellings. Day. The track is rough and gorse abounds. Sitting beneath a gorse bush by the track, wearing carranes under a long homespun dress is a gaunt, wild looking woman. She is surrounded by tailless Manx cats. She knits Loghtan wool with large wooden knitting needles. She pays no attention to Radcliffe and Shakespeare, but cackles and chants charms. RADCLIFFE This is Joni Joughin. She is touched but is without harm. (To Joni) As your Steward I admonish you. Sing your heart out but charm not as no good can come of it for you. (To Shakespeare after translating) The people here carry a great fear of witchcraft, from Patrick our patron saint, whose prayer against witchcraft is known to all. (MORE)

29 28. RADCLIFFE (CONT'D) In the time of my late father s stewardship a woman of Ronague was taken without authority of the Deemster's Assize at Castletown or the Lord Bishop's Court at Kirk Michael. She was forced into a herring barrel and rolled a thousand feet down Cronk ny Arrey Laa into the sea to drown, if not already battered to death. (TO JONI) Knit me gloves Joni. Cease charms. I will get new thatch for your leaking cottage. Radcliffe gives Shakespeare an exact translation Radcliffe and Shakespeare move on EXEUNT FADES Ariel, thy charge exactly is perform'd: but there's more work. What is the time o' the day? ARIEL Past the mid season. At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now must by us both Be spent most preciously. ARIEL Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, let me remember thee what thou hast promised, which is not yet perform'd me. How now? Moody? What is't thou canst demand? My liberty. ARIEL

30 29. Before the time be out? No more! ARIEL I prithee, remember I have done thee worthy service; told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise to bate me a full year. Dost thou forget from what a torment I did free thee? No. ARIEL Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze of the salt deep, to run upon the sharp wind Of the north, to do me business in the veins o' the earth when it is baked with frost. ARIEL I do not, sir. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her? [INSET: JONI JOUGHIN: SYCORAX IN MANIC POSES] No, sir. ARIEL Thou hast. Where was she born? Speak; tell me.

31 30. ARIEL Sir, in Argier. O, was she so? I must once in a month recount what thou hast been, which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax, for mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible to enter human hearing, from Argier, thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did they would not take her life. Is not this true? Ay, sir. ARIEL FADES Day. Manx countryside. A man is working four-horned Loghtan sheep in a small stone-walled field. There are geese grazing in the next small field. The man is huge and misshapen. RADCLIFFE (To Shakespeare) I have Derby s business with this man Callinan, as I will explain you. His nickname -such as is common here- is Danny the Moo. (To Danny) How now Danny. How fare you today? DANNY Middlin bad, middlin bad. They itch, they itch. I scratch, I scratch, but the lice and the fleas they never leave. They bite and they bite and I moan like a cow Moo oh Moo Danny enacts all these effects RADCLIFFE At Christmastide your service to Lord Stanley is a dozen geese.

32 31. DANNY As you see I have but ten. Although I have no letters but my name, I am a good counter RADCLIFFE Ten will suffice. His lordship is not greedy but has many mouths to feed. DANNY I may keep one for my own Christmas table. RADCLIFFE Nine it is Danny. I will fetch them with my cart with the other Christmas dues. DANNY Nine it is Steward Radcliffe RADCLIFFE TO SHAKESPEARE Callinan is, or saith he is, infested with fleas and lice. He also is touched, but without harm. His service to Stanley is a dozen geese at Christmas. We settled for nine this year. Radcliffe and Shakespeare depart from Danny who moans and itches again EXEUNT [Sycorax again INSET with prodigious pregnancy] This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child and here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave, as thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant; and, for thou wast a spirit too delicate to act her earthy and abhorr'd commands, refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee, by help of her more potent ministers (MORE) FADES

33 32. [End Sycorax inset] (CONT'D) and in her most unmitigable rage, into a cloven pine; within which rift imprison'd Thou didst painfully remain a dozen years; within which space she died and left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans as fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island-- save for the son that she did litter here, a freckled whelp hag-born-- not honour'd with a human shape. ARIEL Yes, Caliban her son. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st what torment I did find thee in; thy groans did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts of ever angry bears: it was a torment to lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax could not again undo: it was mine art, when I arrived and heard thee, that made gape the pine and let thee out. ARIEL I thank thee, master. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. ARIEL Pardon, master; I will be correspondent to command and do my spiriting gently.

34 33. EXIT Ariel Do so, and after two days I will discharge thee. ARIEL That's my noble master! What shall I do? Say what; what shall I do? Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be subject to no sigh but thine and mine, invisible to every eyeball else. Go take this shape and hither come in't: go, hence with diligence! Awake, dear heart, awake! Thou hast slept well; awake! MIRANDA The strangeness of your story put heaviness in me. Shake it off. Come on; We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never yields us kind answer. MIRANDA 'tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on. But, as 'tis, we cannot miss him: he does make our fire, fetch in our wood and serves in offices that profit us. What, ho! Slave! Caliban! Thou earth, thou! Speak. CALIBAN (O.S) There's wood enough

35 34. Come forth, I say! There's other business for thee: come, thou tortoise! When? RE-ENTER Ariel like a water-nymph EXIT ENTER Caliban Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel, hark in thine ear. ARIEL My lord it shall be done. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself upon thy wicked dam, come forth! CALIBAN As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you both! A south-west blow on ye and blister you all o'er! For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins shall, for that vast of night that they may work, all exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch'd as thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging than bees that made 'em. CALIBAN I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou takest from me. When thou camest first, thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me (MORE)

36 35. CALIBAN (CONT'D) water with berries in't, and teach me how to name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee and show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, the fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile: cursed be I that did so! All the charms of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! For I am all the subjects that you have, which first was mine own king: and here you sty me in this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me the rest o' the island. Thou most lying slave, whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee, filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee in mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child. CALIBAN O ho, O ho! Would't had been done! Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else this isle with Calibans. Abhorred slave, which any print of goodness wilt not take, being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes with words that made them known. But thy vile race, though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures could not abide to be with; (MORE)

37 36. EXIT Caliban (CONT'D) therefore wast thou deservedly confined into this rock, who hadst deserved more than a prison. CALIBAN You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you for learning me your language! Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best, to answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice? If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly what I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps, fill all thy bones with aches, Make thee roar that beasts shall tremble at thy din. CALIBAN No, pray thee. (Aside) I must obey: his art is of such power, it would control my dam's god, Setebos, and make a vassal of him. So, slave; hence! RE-ENTER Ariel, invisible, playing and singing; Ferdinand following ARIEL'S SONG. [Fasletto/Counter-tenor] ARIEL Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands: courtsied when you have and kiss'd the wild waves whist, foot it featly here and there; (MORE)

38 37. ARIEL (CONT'D) and, sweet sprites, The burthen bear. Hark, hark! (Burthen dispersedly, within) The watch-dogs bark! Burthen: Bow-wow [hounds belling] Hark, hark! I hear the strain of strutting chanticleer cry, cock-a-diddle-dow. [cock's crow] FERDINAND Where should this music be? I' the air or the earth? It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank, weeping again the king my father's wreck, this music crept by me upon the waters, allaying both their fury and my passion with its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it, or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone. No, it begins again. ARIEL SINGS Full fathom five thy father lies; of his bones are coral made; those are pearls that were his eyes: nothing of him that doth fade but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell (Burthen: Ding-dong [bells chime]) Hark! Now I hear them,-- ding-dong, bell. [bells chime] FERDINAND The ditty does remember my drown'd father. This is no mortal business, nor no sound that the earth owes. I hear it now above me.

39 38. : [TO MIRANDA] The fringed curtains of thine eye advance and say what thou seest yond. MIRANDA What is't? A spirit? Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, it carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit. No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses as we have, such. This gallant which thou seest was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd with grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him a goodly person: he hath lost his fellows and strays about to find 'em. MIRANDA I might call him a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble. [ASIDE] It goes on, I see as my soul prompts it [To ARIEL} Spirit, fine spirit I ll free thee within two days for this FERDINAND Most sure, the goddess on whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer may know if you remain upon this island; and that you will some good instruction give how I may bear me here: my prime request, which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder! If you be maid or no?

40 39. MIRANDA No wonder, sir; but certainly a maid. FERDINAND My language! Heavens! I am the best of them that speak this speech, were I but where 'tis spoken. How? The best? What wert thou, if the king of Naples heard thee? FERDINAND A single thing, as I am now, that wonders to hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me; and that he does I weep: myself am Naples, who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld the king my father wreck'd. MIRANDA Alack, for mercy! FERDINAND Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan and his brave son being twain. [ASIDE) the Duke of Milan And his more braver daughter could control thee if you were fit to do t. At the first sight they have changed eyes (To ARIEL} Delicate Ariel I ll set you free for this (To FERDINAND} A word, good sir; I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.

41 40. MIRANDA Why speaks my father so ungently? This is the third man that e'er I saw, The first that e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father to be inclined my way! FERDINAND O, if a virgin, and your affection not gone forth, I'll make you the queen of Naples. Soft, sir! One word more. (Aside) They are both in either's powers; but this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning make the prize light. (TO FERDINAND) One word more; I charge thee that thou attend me: thou dost here usurp the name thou ownest not; and hast put thyself upon this island as a spy, to win it from me, the lord on't. FERDINAND No, as I am a man. MIRANDA There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: if the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with't. Follow me. Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Come; I'll manacle thy neck and feet together: sea-water shalt thou drink; (MORE)

42 41. (CONT'D) thy food shall be the fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled. Follow. FERDINAND No; I will resist such entertainment till mine enemy has more power. Draws, and is charmed from moving MIRANDA O dear father, make not too rash a trial of him, for he's gentle and not fearful. What? I say, my foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor; who makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward, for I can here disarm thee with this stick and make thy weapon drop. MIRANDA Beseech you, father. [Miranda grabs Prospero s sleeve] Hence! Hang not on my garments. MIRANDA Sir, have pity; I'll be his surety. Silence! One word more shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What! An advocate for an imposter! Hush! Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he, having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench! (MORE)

43 42. (CONT'D) To the most of men this is a Caliban and they to him are angels. MIRANDA My affections are then most humble; I have no ambition to see a goodlier man. [Again making hypnotic passes] Come on; obey: thy nerves are in their infancy again and have no vigour in them. FERDINAND So they are; my spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. My father's loss, the weakness which I feel, the wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats, to whom I am subdued, are but light to me, might I but through my prison once a day behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth let liberty make use of; space enough have I in such a prison. [aside] It works. Come on. Thou hast done well, fine Ariel! [TO FERDINAND] Follow me. [TO ARIEL] Hark what thou else shalt do me. MIRANDA Be of comfort; (MORE)

44 43. MIRANDA (CONT'D) my father's of a better nature, sir, than he appears by speech: this is unwonted which now came from him. Thou shalt be free as mountain winds: but then exactly do all points of my command. ARIEL To the syllable. Come, follow. Speak not for him. EXEUNT ANOTHER PART OF THE ISLAND. ENTER ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others GONZALO Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause, So have we all, of joy; for our escape Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe is is common; every day some sailor's wife, The masters of some merchant and the merchant Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle, I mean our preservation, few in millions can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh our sorrow with our comfort. He receives comfort like cold porridge. SEBASTIAN [TO ANTONIO] ANTONIO [TO SEBASTIAN] The visitor will not give him o'er so.

45 44. SEBASTIAN Look he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. Sir,-- One: tell. GONZALO [TO ALONSO] SEBASTIAN GONZALO When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd, Comes to the entertainer-- Therefore, my lord,-- ANTONIO Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! GONZALO Well, I have done: but yet,-- SEBASTIAN He will be talking. ADRIAN Though this island seem to be desert,-- uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,-- ANTONIO He could not miss't. ADRIAN It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate temperance. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. GONZALO Here is everything advantageous to life.

46 45. ANTONIO True; save means to live. SEBASTIAN Of that there's none, or little. GONZALO How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! But the rarity of it is,-- which is indeed almost beyond credit, -- that our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with salt water. Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis. SEBASTIAN 'Twas a sweet marriage, And we prosper well in our return. ADRIAN Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to their queen. GONZALO Not since widow Dido's time. Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen. ANTONIO And the rarest that e'er came there. GONZALO Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I wore it? I mean, in a sort when I wore it at your daughter's marriage?

47 46. ALONSO You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense. Would I had never married my daughter there! For, coming thence, My son is lost and, in my rate, she too, who is so far from Italy removed I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish Hath made his meal on thee? FRANCISCO Sir, he may live: I saw him beat the surges under him, and ride upon their backs; he trod the water, Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head 'bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd himself with his good arms in lusty stroke To the shore, that o'er his waveworn basis bow'd, As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt he came alive to land. ALONSO No, no, he's gone. SEBASTIAN Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss, That would not bless our Europe with your daughter, But rather lose her to an African; Where she at least is banish'd from your eye, Who hath cause to wet the grief on't. You were kneel'd to and importuned otherwise by all of us, and the fair soul herself, weigh'd between loathness and obedience, at which end o' the beam should bow. We have lost your son, I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have more widows in them of this business' making (MORE)

48 47. SEBASTIAN (CONT'D) Than we bring men to comfort them: The fault's your own. GONZALO My lord Sebastian, The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness And time to speak it in: you rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster. It is foul weather in us all, good sir, when you are cloudy. Very foul. ANTONIO GONZALO Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,-- ANTONIO He'ld sow't with nettle-seed. SEBASTIAN Or docks, or mallows. GONZALO And were the king on't, what would I do? SEBASTIAN 'Scape being drunk for want of wine. GONZALO I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; (MORE)

49 48. GONZALO (CONT'D) And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty;-- SEBASTIAN Yet he would be king on't. ANTONIO The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning. GONZALO All things in common nature should produce without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people. SEBASTIAN No marrying 'mong his subjects? ANTONIO None, man; all idle: whores and knaves. GONZALO I would with such perfection govern, sir, To excel the golden age. And,-- do you mark me, sir? I do well believe your highness; and did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen, who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that they always use to laugh at nothing. ANTONIO 'Twas you we laughed at. GONZALO Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to you: so you may continue and laugh at nothing still.